To amortize a loan, use the table above as an example: 1  Note your starting loan balance: $20,000. 2  Figure out the payment (calculation shown on this page): $377.42. 3  Figure out the interest charge for each period â usually monthly (calculation shown on this page): $83.33 in the first month.
$104.3 million less in dividend payments after buying back shares. Apple now has 861.74 million shares outstanding, a significant drop from just one quarter ago when it had 892.55 million outstanding shares. The company's stock buyback program acquired 31.7 million shares in the March quarter, and will retire them.
The repurchase of shares has slightly reduced the total dividend Apple pays. While the company reports $2.8 billion in dividend payments for FQ1, at $0.47 per share the 5.825 billion shares outstanding would appear to total $2.73 billion, a $70 million reduction over the previous quarter's dividends.APL Dividends & Buybacks Dividends are a minority portion of Apple's shareholder capital return program, the majority of which has been earmarked for buying back outstanding shares. Buybacks increase the scarcity, and therefore value, of Apple's stock by taking shares off the market and retiring them.